In a proactive effort focused primarily on
the illegal sale and use of crack cocaine, the Polk County Sheriff's
Office Narcotics Unit, with help from the HIDTA (High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Area) Task Force designated a week in December, starting
December 2, 2002, as "Cocaine Enforcement Week". The end result,
however, yielded much more than just cocaine-related offenses. In
all, detectives seized 7 pounds of methamphetamines, 400 Ecstasy pills,
$8,000 in U.S. currency, 13.2 pounds of cocaine, 14 pounds of marijuana,
and made 43 arrests. Due to the success so far, the initiative will
continue and intensify throughout the month of December, and will focus on
disrupting the flow of all illegal drugs county-wide.

Names and dates of birth of those arrested to
date are:

Allen, Robert - 1/22/1980

Anderson, Irene -2/22/1958

Barnett, Jesse - 9/5/1984

Brown, John - 1/27/1982

Butts, Charles - 3/25/1982

Collier, Edward - 7/27/1964

Conner, Jimmie - 6/22/1954

Cruz, Alejandro - 3/26/1981

Dargon, Byron - 4/28/1985

Dent, Carolyn - 9/15/1961

Duckett, Terril - 10/8/1977

Duffy, Steven - 1/16/1967

Finney, Raymond - 7/25/1960

Garrett, Chester - 7/12/1965

Guy, Sarah - 5/18/1986

Hammonds, Jonathon - 12/12/1983

Hardy, Eddie - 12/21/1974

Hobby, Timothy - 7/20/1964

Jefferson, Curtis - 7/19/1979

Johnson, Tyrone - 10/30/1982

Jones, William - 10/11/1984

Lollar, Bobby - 12/11/1967

Losado, Amando - 1/30/1975

Markland, Danny - 6/6/1967

McCloud, Pamela - 5/9/1959

McDonald, Robert - 7/6/1951

Merricks, Christopher - 4/4/1978

Mills, Tracy - 2/2/1976

Myers, Brian - 1/2/1980

Nambo, Vicente - 4/15/1968

Newell, Jessica - 7/22/1986

Pierce, William - 7/2/1967

Platt, Jonathon - 1/24/1986

Reeves, Anthony - 2/27/1973

Reyes, Everado - 1/3/1974

Reyes, Margarita - 2/8/1974

Robbins, Jimmy - 4/11/1984

Roman, Alysha - 6/12/1986

Tarver, Maurice - 11/11/1978

Thornton, Doug - 1/13/1984

Wilkerson, Darren - 8/19/1965

Williams, Kevin - 2/9/1975

Williams, Michael - 3/6/1973.

Entering into the second week of the
campaign, on December 11th detectives made seizures from two vehicles, one
in Alturas and one in Lake Wales, which yielded approximately 13.2 pounds
of cocaine and 14 pounds of marijuana. Jimmie Conner, of 2042 Canal
Road in Lake Wales, and Raymond Finney, of 624 Ave A SW in Winter Haven,
were arrested during the bust.